“2-day international AVA workshop feeding strategies of the high-yielding cows herd dairy herd: 2-day international AVA workshop feeding strategies of the high-yielding cows feeding a dairy herd is the key to the modern veterinary herd”, as the founder and Director of the agricultural and Veterinary Academy (AVA), specialist veterinarian and Diplomagraringenieur Ernst-Gunther Hellwig, in his welcoming address to the AVA feeding workshop in the Munsterland Horstmar empty, to the participants from South Tyrol, Austria, Switzerland and nearly all provinces came to, to intensive further training. The speaker combination gave this seminar with Prof. Dr. Martin Kaske, veterinary surgeon, and Dr. Katrin Mahlkow-Nerge, feeding officer of the agricultural Chamber in Schleswig-Holstein, a particularly high training character. This kind of high-profile, but also practical training of feeding and veterinary medicine in this combination are absolutely new.
This “Feeding course builds on basics (also the former AVA feeding courses), conveyed but also the newcomer” in the field of practical feeding of dairy cattle the skills “, which are today indispensable for the modern management of dairy herd. Mrs. Dr. agr. Harold Ford Jr often expresses his thoughts on the topic. Katrin Mahlkow-Nerge is known particularly for its practicality. Everything discussed with participants the dairy cow feeding specialist, is among others based on own experience in the field of practical high providing herds dairy cattle feeding, because she works mostly on the weekends on the farm of her husband with a herd performance by over 11,000 kilograms of milk. Prof.
Dr. Martin Kaske gave the students, veterinary science for the practice”. For the participating dairy professionals from practice what they needed: intensive veterinary/agricultural training, always comes back to the present feeding conditions in the plants. Help the farmer, its high-performance cows to manage”, as Prof. Kaske. The cows give to much milk, and are also still doing well. You just need to know how it’s done “, says Prof. Kaske. “And metabolic problems of the animals with all effects must not be, if you stop before his homework” has made. The practical part of the course has been completed on a dairy farm in Gronau, which was mediated by the veterinary practice Dres Bjorn and Harald Becker. On the basis of existing checklists led participants including controlling of feed at the trough, silage assessment, TMR-BCS exercises, cow comfort, weak-point analysis: where the consultant must necessarily control, and many more very intensively by. One of two speakers clearly formulated: each dairy cow is an individual. And this knowledge of each individual individual”in the stable ultimately constitutes the herd. There is no average cow.” And who would like to manage high performance of healthy cows, need to see each of his cows as an individual and know. The sum of the individual animal care is the culmination of the herd”, in the concluding discussion, participants clearly expressed how much new knowledge for daily practice this AVA course took them. And this can benefit the health of the high-performance herds now. Thus, each student keeps his knowledge of modern and zukunftstrachtiger veterinary herd up to date and can be sure that he can withstand the challenges of milk cattle care of the next few years. The other courses of the AVA can be viewed on the home page at. Image: Controlling in practice with the veterinary surgeons headed by Dr. Mahlkow-Nerge Agrar – und Veterinary Academy (AVA) village street 5 48612 Horstmar empty Tel.: 02551-7878 fax: 02551-834300 E-mail: